After almost a decade using a low-end 1.6 ghz linux laptop that was eternally plugged to the power supply I could afford to buy a Mini PC that still had decent

After almost a decade using a low-end 1.6 ghz linux laptop that was eternally plugged to the power supply I could afford to buy a Mini PC that still had decent specs so you still could play mid 2010s AAA games in mid-settings. The mini-pc already came with Windows 11 preinstalled on a 256 gb SSD, I though that was sufficient to allocate a new partition and install linux in it whilst still keeping windows to play games it, however the steam games soon ate up half the SSD with little room for anything else. I had to make a though decision either I format the SSD entirely to make room for linux or I keep windows 11 to be able to play games. I chose the latter, on the bright side it stimulated me to learn IDEs for development and depend less on command line only tools from linux.